Tuesday, January 08, 2013

Geshem-pocalypse

(Geshem – Rain in Hebrew, Pocalypse, as in the apocalypse, destructive events. Term coined by Benji Lovitt.)

Israel is a land of seasonal rains. In the Shemona Esrai (the standing silent prayer), during the winter we add “the winds should blow and the rains fall”. We add and remove this according to the start and end of the raining season in the land of Israel.

The first time we add this, we say an additional prayer, “tefilas geshem”, the prayer for rain…

…For blessing and not for a curse, …For life and not for death, …For plenty and not for scarcity.

Israel is undergoing severe rain levels, the heaviest in a generation. Thank G-d, very very few have been injured or killed (ok, the guy who kayaked down the Tel Aviv flood canal brought it on himself), but the destruction levels are growing.

1 comment:

It doesn't look so good out there Look FamiliarBut look at it this way, were getting a Golus's worth of rain, Geshmei Brachos which should bring us a GREENING OF ALL OF ERETZ YISRAEL THAT BELONGS TO US!

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